Insurgent (Robert Schwentke, 2015)

And while The Hunger Games fizzles out, this smudged carbon copy plods on towards the same cynical splitting of the third book into two parts still to come. Shailene Woodley's lead character, now put through a succession of virtual challenges to establish for once and for all that, Neo-style, she's 'The One', is a central weakness, watered down in every aspect from Jennifer Lawrence's version. But overall, besides Kate Winslet's cold villain, there's not much else to shout about either, with little of its progenitor cycle's subtlety in fleshing out the brutalistic society with some political or psychological depth. This one will limp over the finishing line, when that mercifully comes.

4/10